Shade-roller bracket.



PATENTED JUNE 19, 1906.

H.S.DUNBAR. SHADE ROLLER BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED OOT.20, 1905.

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. HARRY s. DUNBAR, or QLEVELAND, OHIO." i [SHADE-ROLLER BRACKET.

10 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY S. DUNBAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleve.- land, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shade-Roller Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

When an ordinary shade-roller bracket is set at the usual place at the top of the casing, it covers the upper sash and obstructs, to a large extent, any ventilation which could 0therwise be secured by opening the upper sash.

The object of the present invention is to provide a shade-roller bracket which can be quickly and readily raised or lowered, so that when lowered a space is left at the top throu h which ventilation can be effected. ject is accomplished by means of a bracket having swinging pieces which carry the shade: roller and which can be swung up ordown for the purpose indicated.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Figurel being a front viewof part of a window provided with the improvement, the shade-roller being in the upperfiosition. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the r0 er lowered. Figs. 3 and 4 are side views of a bracket in lowered and raised position, respectively. i

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates the window-casing and 7 the shaderoller. Each bracket consists of a plate 8,

' which is attached to the-case by means of screws at 9, with an arm 10 projecting forwardly from said plate and having pivoted to its outer end at 11 a swinging plate 12, which is provided with a hole 13 to receive the end of the spindle of the shade-roller. Struck out from the upper edge of the plate 10 is a stop 14;, against which the plate 12 strikes Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 20, 1905. Serial No. 283,611.

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and stops when it is swung up. The outer end of the arm 10 is dropped, as shown, to

bring the plate 12 in proper position to strike "manner. When in raised position, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, the shade covers the whole window, the same as usual. When ventilation at the topof the window is desired, the shade may be pulled out sharply toward the horizontal to swing the plates 12 forwardly, so that they will drop to the lower position, causing the shade to hang several inches below the top of the upper sash, and when said sash is opened ventilation is not obstructed. The'shade-roller can a ain be swung up by hand when desired. n case a roller is hun too high to be conveniently reached by d it can be swung either up or down by means of a hooked rod or other implement provided for the purpose.

Having thus described my invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

A shade-roller bracket comprising a hori zontally-extending supporting-arm having a projectin stop, and a plate pivoted at its inner en to the outer end of the arm and havin in its free end an opening to receive the ro ler-spindle, and constructed to swing below or above the armand to strike the stop when swung up.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 

